The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-09-02

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Straw win keep fully = we'll -
mixed hay. Il e b stacked with =
much care. The trouble Il. usually
that too few and incompetent men are
placed on the strawstack. while the
more desirable places about the thresh-
Ing machine are given 20 the more
careful workers. Straw will NOT keep
II merely piled up in IN irregular pile
without thought or system. To make
. good stack Of the straw from twenty
OF thirty loads Of bundles one foreman
and two to five helpers are needed
Among the great mass Of farmers In
grain sections the plan Of 'chahging
work" is quite generally adopted in
threshing. Every one has dislike for
the strawstack. and very few men take
q pride in building : stack 50 II will
keep. II . man gets : reputation for
building good stacks every one wants
to change work" with him and he II
asked to stack straw. Az there Is hard
work. great deal Of dust and little
credit in II, most men find . way Of IN
juring their reputation in the art by
making one or two poor stacks for
men who try to impose on Them One
can see but very few well-built stacks.
even in many Of the older farming sec
tions where nice straw has come TO
possess market value.
When It IL possible, the farmer
should stack his own straw. or employ
some man to stack il for him who will
do It well. II hands are secured by
changing work, It is well for two TO
agree to stack each others straw. In
any case. one man should be detailed
by the owner to stack the straw, and
should be provided with enough help
ers to enable him to do good job.
The foreman Of the stack should lay
out the bottom % - to got a. nearly
the proper size = possible. This i
often very hard to do 1t he start, e.
pecially when threshing from the
shock. and It requires practice to
judge correctly. Old thrcshing-ma-
chine men often acquire . good eye
for determining how large the stack
should be made. and they should be
consulted II the foundation y made
too large. the stack will be dat when II
has settled. and IL made TOO small. the
stack Is run 80 high that : part must
be showed OF At ono side. where It ID
too often allowed to spoil. In build
ing large stacks, It ID preferable t.
make them quite long. rather than toe
wide. to shed rain well The foreman
should direct where the straw Il to b
laid. and where the tramping i to b
done. In building the outside Of thu
stack. he should stand at the outer end
Of tie line Of pitchers and place the
straw himself. The sides should b
run straight up to about one-haf thu
height the stack IL 70 Be when com
plete, and then drawn In 1t an angle o.
from forty-fve to sixty degrees
The tramping should be dono main
" in the center under the ridge Of thu
stack. As this part will support tn
greatest weight, and it Is desirable =
have it settle less than the outside. s.
as to run the water outward. Up q
the point where the topping-out Is be
gun. the surface should be kept level
Before beginning to draw the sides in
the center should be rounded up
tramped thoroughly and kept in tina
shape to the top. By this method tn
successive layers Of straw are so place.
As to lap over each other like shingles
and as the stack settles most aroun'
the edges they remain in that position
shedding the rain much better than
the stack Is kept level and trampe
the most around the edges. The STAG
should be built up uniformly to th
top and not topped out one end 1t
time. A stack built by system an
plan will not settle down in places an
let the rain run into holes, maxim
rotten cores reaching to the ground. q
is often found 20 be the case in straw
piles. Prairie Farmer.